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I have found the DeDeDepraise watercolours from Temu to be lovely to use, creamy and highly pigmented. I have used them for several years and have never light tested them. They work perfectly well with my Daniel Smith and a variety of handmade high end watercolours. The variety of pallettes are fun.
Yes, Yes I am! I don't care a lot about clothes or cars or whatever, but every box of art supplies is like Christmas morning for me! I just love them! Thanks for watching!
Mont Marte is a decent brand. I use their compressed charcoal woodless pencils and I m more than happy! Quality AND performance that even the most famous brands don't offer. I also use their A3 drawing board,which is the best art supply,I got the last 2 years! Recommend both products!!! That comes from a guy,who uses strictly the best art supplies and the best only!
Thanks for the video - it was interesting to see such a large selection of inexpensive, but decent quality, art materials, being demonstrated. I personally won't buy from Temu, but they obviously provide a means for many people to buy art materials that would otherwise be out of their financial reach; and I would never dream of criticising anyone who chooses Temu as their entry point into art and creativity - after all, we should all want as many people as possible to get creating, right? Incidentally, I've never thought of removing my ink converter from the pen to refill it. I often have a problem getting the converter to completely fill and I'll try your way to see if it works better for me - thanks for the suggestion. Best wishes, Brian......
Enjoyed the video. I have spent so much money on Temu the past several months. 😄 Mostly Baohong paper. Can't beat the prices! I haven't had any issues with them. Sorry to see you have gotten some rude comments lately. Try not to let it get to you. You're doing great. ☺
The fountain pen ink converters can be used with the nib still attached. It saves time if you are refilling and keeps flow consistent, keeps air from clogging up your nib.
I don't actually like to do that because I've seen pens start to leak around where the metal nib meets the plastic base because of the pressure on that area from the vacuum the converter creates. I like my pens a lot so I try to make them last as long as I can! But If I had a cheaper one I didn't mid possibly messing up, I'd probably do that, just to save time!
@@winterwoodsstudio No worries! Do what makes you comfortable. I treat my temu fountain pens as disposable and experimental. I fill them with acrylics and india inks, I grind down the nibs I carve channels into feeds and cut into nibs with diamond bits to make them flex for ultimate line variation. When the pens are less than $2 the experiments aren't so painful if they don't turn out. I always used to fill by removing the converter when I had very expensive inks and precious pens. But once I looked more into fountain pens and really disassembling them and modifying them, reckless behavior like filling with the nib on made real drawing and writing use just easier and one less hassle during the creation process. Sometimes I don't even screw the back part of the pen back on if I am drawing large and have to refill lots! No worries! Filling with the converter only is totally valid! Great haul. I wanted some of those inks in the past, but never picked them up. Great to know the bottles are so large! Exciting!
@DianaNorman OOH! I've never done any of the modifications because I was afraid I'd screw it up somehow, but it sounds like so much fun! Maybe I need to try some and stop being so afraid! Thanks for the tips!
@@winterwoodsstudio there are tons of good fountain pens on temu. They have different sizes of nibs and feeds and you can just firmly grip the front of the pen and just pull the pieces apart! I buy them like 20 pens at a time! A few months ago they had a bunch at $0.88! And really nice refillable calligraphy brush pens that take cartridges. But look at cursive italic stub nibs and you'll see what i mean about modifying pens. The tip is basically ground down so it is no longer a point but flat across the top. And the line variation is amazing. The down strokes are wide and the side strokes are thin. And awesome for drawing. Bamboo pens are fun too and those you can carve up or sand down easier than metal. I also play with feather quills all the same fountain pen principals apply. But feathers are easier to cut and modify than metal. Same with dip pens. Same with alcohol markers. You can carve into the chisel tips... and make specialized fur markers! and the temu costs are so low you can really experiment and make your tools do exactly what you want to save time and effort. Those fineliners, once they are used up, I refill with my own india ink. Oh and to prevent bleedthrough to other pages I use a sandwich bag or other plastic under the page. Also the plastic can rewet alcohol ink so clean it before the next use or you might get unexpected colors from the back.
I'm so glad you did a Temu haul. I love Temu and when one is on a budget, it really helps to get cheaper supplies because you feel like you can afford to try new techniques. And for people who think it's unethical, think about your own grocery store and even Walmart. Who hasn't bought a bag of 'Fruit Rings' instead of Fruit Loops because it was less expensive and just as good? Sadly, I supported Temu on the Frugal Crafter with Lindsey channel and....she blocked me and erased my comment and it made me so sad 😪. I was nice and everything so either she read it otherwise or just wanted to ditch the subscribers who want her to do Temu hauls...I don't know 🤔. So I'm so glad you like Temu. I hope to see more budget friendly (frugal) art supplies tested here so I know the best ones to get. Thank you!
I love Lindsey! I watched Lindsey's video and yes, she has some valid points, but also I didn't agree with some. I think one of the most valid was that shopping at big places like Temu (or amazon) puts smaller local shops out of business. But for me, there are no local shops. the only place that sells art supplies within an hour and a half drive for me is Walmat. And also, like a lot of people, our budget is very tight. While I would love to use the most expensive top of the line supplies, it isn't always feasible for me. In fact, the only "professional supplies" i owned before starting this channel was a set of Prismacolor colored pencils (bought at Walmart) and a set of Faber Castell Polychromes I won. I learned with walmart supplies, and it's doable,) Except maybe watercolor paper. A good cotton watercolor paper makes a big difference). One thing I would like to address is the claim that temu is stealing designs and selling them on their site. I've seen it with a lot of my jeweler friends lately. It's true that there are maybe some knock offs on the site. I used to be a jeweler. I had my actual photos of my one of a kind designs stolen and used for criminals to open shops selling my designs WITH MY PHOTOS, on Etsy, Alli express, Ebay, and once even on Amazon. It happens on every large platform where individual people are allowed to sell. While the platform tries to control it the best they can, it's up to the artist to file a cease-and-desist letter with the seller stealing there designs. I know because I did it at least 8 times while I was selling jewelry. Temu isn't the problem any more than Amazon is. I don't have a solution for this, other than to keep filling the cease-and-desist letters. I am positive that Amazon, Etsy,. Ebay, and Temu would fix it if they could in a heartbeat, but like I said, I don't think there is an easy fix. Also, your comment might have disappeared from Lindsey's video without here doing anything. I get people all the time telling me their comments have disappeared from my videos and in the 7 months I've been on here, I only ever deleted two comments, that were both very crude and offensive. I don't know if it's a glitch or if RUclips is doing it or what. But I wouldn't assume it's the youtuber doing it. Hope that helps!
@@winterwoodsstudio Thank you so much for such a lovely reply. It is hard being an artist on a budget so I appreciate that you understand that. The reason I knew Lindsey blocked me was when I went back to edit my reply it gave me a message letting me know I couldn't. 😔 But it's okay, there are lots of good artist to learn from beside her and I wish her all the best. I think she is a nice person normally and my comment must have hit her the wrong way. I didn't mean it offensively but sometimes people read things a certain way that one doesn't mean for it to be heard...if that makes any sense...lol Anyway, I'm enjoying your channel and glad you seem to be enjoying making your videos. Edit: Guess what! She didn't block me! I figured out what happens! If you take too long to type a comment, RUclips won't let it post! Lindsey and I are all good! She was not to blame at all! I'm so happy!
I actually do use all that I buy. Being a full time artist, you go through supplies super fast. If you're using them 8 hours a day, you'd be surprised at how quickly they get used up. Last inktober, I went through six bottles of ink and wore down 6 pen nibs.
Glad you enjoyed what you got Amy!! I also have the ocean watercolors and really liked them considering they are glittery which other than gold really isn’t my thing.
Mine said they were glittery on the package, but oddly they aren't when I use them, which I actually like, because i don't use the glittery much myself! So, it worked out okay in the end! If I do another video, I might have to check out more of their watercolors for you and find one that isn't glittery! Thanks for watching!
@@winterwoodsstudiothere DEDEDEPRAISE RETRO COLOR Watercolour 24 set is amazing it’s so muted earthy and they even granulate. They look like kid Quality when you first open them, and they feel like they’re Not worth more than five bucks, but the colour payout is unreal. It was a really nice surprise.
Hi Amy love Temu ive had some great stuff from them, the Bahong watercolour pads are really cheap and gorgeous paper, love the haul and on the subject of ink ive just ordered the diamine inkvent christmas calander, I bought it last year and loved it so much had to have it this year, their inks are gorgeous
Gaaah! Amy, October has 31 days lol. You could stick an extra page in at the back. I've ordered a watercolour block for the 2nd time from Temu just last week. So happy with the quality and price. The inks and bottles are very beautiful! x Nell.
Ugh. Yep. Of course it does. I was thinking of the undying tales project that I did last year instead of inktober. That one only goes yo the 30th! Oh well! :)
@@tasticola Yes! instagram.com/undyingtales/ It's run by Stephanie Law, my absolute favorite watercolor artist! And it features endangered animals, which is right up my alley! This year, she's doing a prompt every other day. I think that makes it more do-able in my opinion, but I know some people want daily prompts.
I've got several absolutely lovely fountain pen type pens that have a brush nib on the end rather than the fountain pen nib off Temu, for only a couple pounds each
Great haul! I don’t have a lot of experience with ink. What types of inks are suitable for pens? As for the fine liners, did they dry a true black? Some of the less expensive brands dry a dark grey. I’d also like to know your thoughts on using the glass dip pens. I found the one I was using to be scratchy on the surface of the paper, and I wasn’t a fan. I’m not sure if that’s a regular characteristic.
I used your coupon code! Thank you! I love Temu and have gotten a lot of really nice art supplies…and I also use more expensive supplies too…I”m enjoying your channel..and later for the people who are just unkind and offer unsolicited opinions…your channel is great!
I'm so glad! I hope you get something absolutely awesome! And thank you for the encouragement and support as well! I kind of needed it today! I knew starting a channel here would expose me to unkind comments and whatnot, but I didn't really understand the extent of it. I do now, and it can be really hard to get through at times. So thank you for taking the time to leave a kind comment! It really meant something to me today!
A big tip to open lids of various sizes is to use a silicon baking sheet. Those flexible ones. You can double the thickness by folding it so it also works beautifully with very small lids like caps on tubes. Haven’t needed it in this way but I reckon it would also be a game changer to open up the rusted or “glued” tight paint tubes by stuck dried paint. That silicone sheet would give enough traction which would allow you to only use force on the widest part on that paint tube, you know, that round “neck” or what do you call that? Also a bonus, 1 sheet can be cut up in several pieces, several sizes or whatever. I have 1 of my local cheap store, folded up in a container (just so it doesn’t have all that static dirt and my cats and my hairs on it lol). Another tip is to rub a very, very tiny amount of coconut oil on the OUTSIDE of the “neck” of your containers that have a screw-lid with a q-tip or something like that but make sure it can’t get on top or inside the contents of said container so really, such a small amount on the q-tip that you kinda wonder whether it would be enough or not. Would be a shame if it contaminates your content in said container. My explanation is not really making it easy to understand, I feel so I suggest asking her about it in one of her videos, I will look up the right name. But this is an excellent trick to ensure the lids don’t get “glued” on their by the dried paint or whatever else this might apply to. Might or might not be beneficial for everyone but certainly very beneficial for all the people with arthritis or other problems might have difficulty opening. one I got from your colleague youtuber ‘Linda Marcille, Beginner’s mind - Art mind’ (looked her up to have the right name -it is a mouthful lol- and will leave a link here, if links are not allowed, let me know and I will correct this message). youtube.com/@BeginnersMind-ArtMind?si=py3CK-Hk3DGOo1me
You can also use the rubber straps that are used at the Doctor's office for blood tests, they are excellent for opening jars of all sizes; handy to keep in your purse or car, can be used as a tourniquet in an emergency!!!! Really handy to have around
@@jillp3761 that’s a good one! Although many in my neighborhood have the woven fabric elastic straps with clip, the rubber one aren’t as easy to come by. But any rubber tube from a department store will do I guess
SO many goodies and I did watch Lindsay's video on her TEMU Haul and she was very industrious in looking into TEMU and that it is just a clearing house or middleman and they get most of their money through ad revenue! so this is one reason why things are so cheap the manufacturers want to develop brand loyalty and this is one way they are trying to do this! Weird but somewhat good for us consumers!
I kind of liked my little hummingbird too! The ink products were great! I was so excited when I realized they carried all of them! Thank you for watching!
Curious about what kind of inktober videos your planning on making! I’m really excited about this years, I’m not sure what prompt I’m going to follow, I might just do something silly and quick since I don’t know if I’ll have the time to do something intense
okay, after getting all my ink stuff together, I'm thinking of doing something horrible! I'm thinking of making my own list, calling it Paint-ober, and doing gouache, acrylics, and soft pastels (Because I consider them painting!). I really really want to do it.... How awful would that be? :)
Always always store them flat of their sides, or at a slight incline with the tips pointing down. If the nib dried up, they are done for. Also, and I'm sure you know this, but in case anyone else who is reading doesn't, make sure the cap is on tight when you aren't suing them.
I am already! I filmed this two weeks ago and I've been playing and planning for inktober every spare moment i got! Hope you like the video! Thanks for taking the time to watch, Susan!
I have to stop buying art supplies lol.... this is torture lol...my latest art buy was gold leaf and stuff to do gilding ( i am making some illuminated letter inspired by medieval stuff...and also book binding. Have Fun and enjoy your gooddies :)
Ooh that sounds like so much fun! I've been eyeing the gold oil paint from gamblin for awhile! And honestly, sometimes we need yo go on a "no-buy' for art supplies. Sometimes it's good to use up what we have. But also new supplies xan be inspiring as well. So it's a balance. I did a no buy on arg supplies from may 28th to August 1st this year. And it was good but also, sometimes I found myself a little less excited to create. Thanks for watching!
@@winterwoodsstudio usually i try to stick to watercolors...but i like to venture out and try new things ( but not to much) because i still have to master watercolor which will take me a life time lol. But the gilding thing cought my eye ( i bought gold leaf and will try that soon). Have a great week!
I love ur excitement on art supplies just like i do. Some call me acting like a child. But i love arts so what m i suppose to do. Is there any age for it. Yes as u said every new order is like christmas gifts. You look beautuful.❤
Great video. Thank you for sharing all of your experiece, knowledge and passion. Your camera is fine unfortunately some people focus on the wrong thing. Keep being you. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the encouragement! It seems like I'm suddenly getting a lot of comments that aren't so nice this month. I'm trying not to let them bother me but I'm not used to them yet. Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment!
@@winterwoodsstudio do not worry, there are a lot of "Keyboard's Lions" out there 😉 btw, if you are receiving a lot of "not so nice" comments, this means that your channel is growing in popularity, and poor creatives are always scared from growing channels that can potentially stole viewers from them (stupid people has stupid ideas....)... please continue to do what you are doing, you do it very well 😍
I have bought from Temu on several occasions but I must say, MANY times I have had some sort of issue. Like, for example, I ordered that exact set of dip pen.... and they send the only 3 nibs in a little plastic box, and that was it. Not even the (what do u call the other part? English is not my first language.... anyway, that thing where u put the nib)... they didnt send that. And those 3 nibs were HORRIBLE. They were so unbelievably sharp, I dragged one over a paper and it ripped it away!!! They did refund my money, but Im still very frustrated, cause now I don't even dare to buy it again. Also I bought those waterbrushes, and they send me a different set. They send 3 tiny waterbrushes, which was a different set, I saw but didnt order because of how small the water reservoir was!
I'm so sorry to hear that! I've ordered I think five times now? Under a different name and different email address, so it would be hard to connect it to me, and I think out of all the things I ordered, One of my items (a touch lamp) stopped working a few days after I got it, and they gave me a refund right away. But I know how it is to feel wary about ordering from somewhere. every time I place an order for a paint brush or tube of paint form amazon now, I freak out a little!
I wanted to make a new post so you would see it. I don't know if you remember me but in the comment section down below I thought The Frugal Crafter blocked me and you said you had subscribers thinking the same thing and guess what I found out! If you type a long post, RUclips often times can't post it. I think because it took too long and becomes invalid and gives you a weird message making you think you can't or aren't allowed to post. So if someone says they are blocked, that is why! What I've learned to do is copy my long post I type, refresh the page, paste it and then comment and it works every time! Hope that helps give you something to tell your subscribers so they know how to post long comments! Lindsey didn't block me! I'm so happy!
Love your channel! Hey just a request-when showing things close up, maybe try not holding it so close to camera. We get the refocus backlash. If you just held them up closer to your body the auto focus would still work. I get so dissy sick from all the movement. Please take this with lots of love, your doing such an incredible job with this channel and I don’t have anything else that I could possibly be critical of. ❤️🦋🦋🦋🦋
Happy Saturday. Very fun video. Thankyou for sharing the other links for Jake Parker Inktober and Drawtober. Inktober is always so exciting to see so many people sketching/drawing in October every year it grows and grows. Love your Temu picks and they even have some of the alcohol marker refill sets. I love alcohol markers so much. Thankyou for sharing another fun Saturday video and see you on patreon and on Thursdays youtube. And I'm so looking forward to your Ferris Wheel Ink future videos. They keep being out of my wishlist colors but I keep watching out for them. Have a great weekend.
Hi Christie Ann! I'm so glad you liked the video! Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment! I have my next box of ferris qheel press inks waiting here to open but I can't show them until September 25th and I'm worried if I open them I might be tempted... but I keep walking past the box! :) I will see you on patreon as well I hope!
Oh and btw.... u made me laugh so hard, when you showed the 30 page sketchbook for Inktober, and said something like: 30 pages cause that's how many days are in Inktober/October... And I was like: GUUURL.. October, has 31 days! Remember? Halloween October 31. 😅😅😅😅 I'm laughing, but Im not making fun of you! ❤😊😂
Yep, I screwed up. The challenge I did last year, the undying tales project, only had 30 days and for some reason I was thinking inktober only did 30 days too! Oh well! :)
I love getting things from TEMU as well particularly because some of us can’t always afford to get the expensive art supplies that other people use, and it’s nice that they have things that I myself and others can afford, and a not bad quality either. However do you know that they’re stealing other small businesses and artist designs? This is something I’m not ok with. And it’s not a theory or conspiracy. I’ve seen the post myself and even bought one just to see if it was a joke and it’s not. There are also artists out there that are trying to fight this as well. And while TEMU is Chinese based I’ve actually heard that the headquarters comes out of Brooklyn or somewhere in the United States? Recently they stole Kristy Rice‘s new paint brushes And are selling counterfeits. She even did a HAUL previous to this for them and had a good report. She then contacted them about what was happening to her over the counterfeit posts and selling of her exclusive designs and instead of help she hit an absolute brick wall. Other stamp makers, stencil makers have had this happened to them as well. They’re also selling counterfeit Prismacolor pencils & NEOCOLOR II pastels by Caran D’Ache. I just don’t want them taking anything from you. It’s one thing to do this to a big company that can afford the fall in sales because they have a lot of money behind them. But it’s entirely different for a small business to go through this. It completely destroy their business as I’m sure you’re well aware. That doesn’t mean that I won’t still shop there for things that are good quality and a lot cheaper than what they re-sold for in other stores. I just don’t agree with what they’re doing to small Art business owners. Please protect yourself..
So I already talked about this in the comments again, but I'm going to go over it again because I think it's important. Temu isn't the problem. Temu is a large online marketplace and has individual sellers on there that are not a part of the Temu company. The things that are being sold that are knock offs are being sold by individual sellers. As a jeweler for over a decade, I had people steal my actual photos of my handmade designs and set up shop with my actual photos, selling knock offs. It happened to me 8 times. Twice on Etsy, three times on Alli express, twice on ebay, and once on amazon. It is up to the artist to file a cease-and-desist letter with both the individual company and the actual seller. Then the store gets shut down and the items removed. If not, you sue them. There is no easy fix to this on these big online marketplaces. The only answer is for the artist to be vigilante and watch for their items being ripped off. In the meantime, it is of course everybody's own personal choice on whether or not they want to shop at these places. When I tell people what happened to me, almost all of them refuse to boycott Amazon, Etsy, and Ebay, Which kind of makes me mad. If you're going to boycott one of them, then you really need to boycott them all, otherwise you are a hypocrite. Not you personally I mean. I'm thinking about a certain guy I know that I had this conversation with. It still makes me steamed up! I don't know why everybody is so okay with turning a blind eye to amazon or etsy but all angry about it happening on temu! I feel like it's not convenient for them to acknowledge this happens at some of the companies they love to shop at!
Please stop shoving small items up to the camera. It is slow to focus and you are giving your viewers a big flash of white light right in the eyes. Maybe focus on a more professional camera and lighting set Up
I'm doing the best I can. I cannot afford a more professional light set up right now. Maybe someday. I do try to turn the lights off when it when it's too bright.
@@diannelevy9179 I was just about to say the exact same thing. How about if it bothers you so much you could buy her the very expensive camera setup that you think is better? Honestly, some people just have no idea I mean where the hell did adequacy go or saying something nice or if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
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I have found the DeDeDepraise watercolours from Temu to be lovely to use, creamy and highly pigmented. I have used them for several years and have never light tested them. They work perfectly well with my Daniel Smith and a variety of handmade high end watercolours. The variety of pallettes are fun.
Thank you for your lovelly videos for supporting temu for people who are on budget it is amazing place best wishes to you and your family
I love watching your hauls cause u get so genuinely happy, just like a lil girl, and that fills my heart with joy. I love seeing people happy! ❤
Yes, Yes I am! I don't care a lot about clothes or cars or whatever, but every box of art supplies is like Christmas morning for me! I just love them! Thanks for watching!
It's awesome that you're collaborating with temu now! I love all the things you've picked out 😍
Thanks! I am so glad you liked the video!
The watercolours are really good for the price! They’d be lovely for sketchbooks and journals! X
YEs, I agree! And I've been using them a lot in mine!
Mont Marte is a decent brand. I use their compressed charcoal woodless pencils and I m more than happy! Quality AND performance that even the most famous brands don't offer. I also use their A3 drawing board,which is the best art supply,I got the last 2 years! Recommend both products!!! That comes from a guy,who uses strictly the best art supplies and the best only!
Thanks for the video - it was interesting to see such a large selection of inexpensive, but decent quality, art materials, being demonstrated. I personally won't buy from Temu, but they obviously provide a means for many people to buy art materials that would otherwise be out of their financial reach; and I would never dream of criticising anyone who chooses Temu as their entry point into art and creativity - after all, we should all want as many people as possible to get creating, right? Incidentally, I've never thought of removing my ink converter from the pen to refill it. I often have a problem getting the converter to completely fill and I'll try your way to see if it works better for me - thanks for the suggestion. Best wishes, Brian......
Enjoyed the video. I have spent so much money on Temu the past several months. 😄 Mostly Baohong paper. Can't beat the prices! I haven't had any issues with them. Sorry to see you have gotten some rude comments lately. Try not to let it get to you. You're doing great. ☺
Love the ocean wc set. I've had it for a while and you are spot on...fall landscapes!
The fountain pen ink converters can be used with the nib still attached. It saves time if you are refilling and keeps flow consistent, keeps air from clogging up your nib.
I don't actually like to do that because I've seen pens start to leak around where the metal nib meets the plastic base because of the pressure on that area from the vacuum the converter creates. I like my pens a lot so I try to make them last as long as I can! But If I had a cheaper one I didn't mid possibly messing up, I'd probably do that, just to save time!
@@winterwoodsstudio No worries! Do what makes you comfortable. I treat my temu fountain pens as disposable and experimental. I fill them with acrylics and india inks, I grind down the nibs I carve channels into feeds and cut into nibs with diamond bits to make them flex for ultimate line variation. When the pens are less than $2 the experiments aren't so painful if they don't turn out. I always used to fill by removing the converter when I had very expensive inks and precious pens. But once I looked more into fountain pens and really disassembling them and modifying them, reckless behavior like filling with the nib on made real drawing and writing use just easier and one less hassle during the creation process. Sometimes I don't even screw the back part of the pen back on if I am drawing large and have to refill lots! No worries! Filling with the converter only is totally valid! Great haul. I wanted some of those inks in the past, but never picked them up. Great to know the bottles are so large! Exciting!
@DianaNorman OOH! I've never done any of the modifications because I was afraid I'd screw it up somehow, but it sounds like so much fun! Maybe I need to try some and stop being so afraid! Thanks for the tips!
@@winterwoodsstudio there are tons of good fountain pens on temu. They have different sizes of nibs and feeds and you can just firmly grip the front of the pen and just pull the pieces apart! I buy them like 20 pens at a time! A few months ago they had a bunch at $0.88! And really nice refillable calligraphy brush pens that take cartridges.
But look at cursive italic stub nibs and you'll see what i mean about modifying pens. The tip is basically ground down so it is no longer a point but flat across the top. And the line variation is amazing. The down strokes are wide and the side strokes are thin. And awesome for drawing. Bamboo pens are fun too and those you can carve up or sand down easier than metal. I also play with feather quills all the same fountain pen principals apply. But feathers are easier to cut and modify than metal. Same with dip pens. Same with alcohol markers. You can carve into the chisel tips... and make specialized fur markers! and the temu costs are so low you can really experiment and make your tools do exactly what you want to save time and effort. Those fineliners, once they are used up, I refill with my own india ink.
Oh and to prevent bleedthrough to other pages I use a sandwich bag or other plastic under the page. Also the plastic can rewet alcohol ink so clean it before the next use or you might get unexpected colors from the back.
I'm so glad you did a Temu haul. I love Temu and when one is on a budget, it really helps to get cheaper supplies because you feel like you can afford to try new techniques. And for people who think it's unethical, think about your own grocery store and even Walmart. Who hasn't bought a bag of 'Fruit Rings' instead of Fruit Loops because it was less expensive and just as good?
Sadly, I supported Temu on the Frugal Crafter with Lindsey channel and....she blocked me and erased my comment and it made me so sad 😪. I was nice and everything so either she read it otherwise or just wanted to ditch the subscribers who want her to do Temu hauls...I don't know 🤔. So I'm so glad you like Temu. I hope to see more budget friendly (frugal) art supplies tested here so I know the best ones to get. Thank you!
I love Lindsey! I watched Lindsey's video and yes, she has some valid points, but also I didn't agree with some. I think one of the most valid was that shopping at big places like Temu (or amazon) puts smaller local shops out of business. But for me, there are no local shops. the only place that sells art supplies within an hour and a half drive for me is Walmat. And also, like a lot of people, our budget is very tight. While I would love to use the most expensive top of the line supplies, it isn't always feasible for me. In fact, the only "professional supplies" i owned before starting this channel was a set of Prismacolor colored pencils (bought at Walmart) and a set of Faber Castell Polychromes I won. I learned with walmart supplies, and it's doable,) Except maybe watercolor paper. A good cotton watercolor paper makes a big difference).
One thing I would like to address is the claim that temu is stealing designs and selling them on their site. I've seen it with a lot of my jeweler friends lately. It's true that there are maybe some knock offs on the site. I used to be a jeweler. I had my actual photos of my one of a kind designs stolen and used for criminals to open shops selling my designs WITH MY PHOTOS, on Etsy, Alli express, Ebay, and once even on Amazon. It happens on every large platform where individual people are allowed to sell. While the platform tries to control it the best they can, it's up to the artist to file a cease-and-desist letter with the seller stealing there designs. I know because I did it at least 8 times while I was selling jewelry. Temu isn't the problem any more than Amazon is. I don't have a solution for this, other than to keep filling the cease-and-desist letters. I am positive that Amazon, Etsy,. Ebay, and Temu would fix it if they could in a heartbeat, but like I said, I don't think there is an easy fix.
Also, your comment might have disappeared from Lindsey's video without here doing anything. I get people all the time telling me their comments have disappeared from my videos and in the 7 months I've been on here, I only ever deleted two comments, that were both very crude and offensive. I don't know if it's a glitch or if RUclips is doing it or what. But I wouldn't assume it's the youtuber doing it. Hope that helps!
@@winterwoodsstudio Thank you so much for such a lovely reply. It is hard being an artist on a budget so I appreciate that you understand that.
The reason I knew Lindsey blocked me was when I went back to edit my reply it gave me a message letting me know I couldn't. 😔 But it's okay, there are lots of good artist to learn from beside her and I wish her all the best. I think she is a nice person normally and my comment must have hit her the wrong way. I didn't mean it offensively but sometimes people read things a certain way that one doesn't mean for it to be heard...if that makes any sense...lol
Anyway, I'm enjoying your channel and glad you seem to be enjoying making your videos.
Edit: Guess what! She didn't block me! I figured out what happens! If you take too long to type a comment, RUclips won't let it post! Lindsey and I are all good! She was not to blame at all! I'm so happy!
A very nice haul! I have noticed that several regular brand names are starting to sell through Temu as they get more and more popular.
What do you do with everything you buy? Do you resell them? there is no possible time to use all that you buy
I actually do use all that I buy. Being a full time artist, you go through supplies super fast. If you're using them 8 hours a day, you'd be surprised at how quickly they get used up. Last inktober, I went through six bottles of ink and wore down 6 pen nibs.
I have seen a video that said if you wash the new nibs of dip pens and then clean it with alcohol it holds more ink, just a thought
Glad you enjoyed what you got Amy!! I also have the ocean watercolors and really liked them considering they are glittery which other than gold really isn’t my thing.
Mine said they were glittery on the package, but oddly they aren't when I use them, which I actually like, because i don't use the glittery much myself! So, it worked out okay in the end! If I do another video, I might have to check out more of their watercolors for you and find one that isn't glittery! Thanks for watching!
@@winterwoodsstudiothere DEDEDEPRAISE RETRO COLOR Watercolour 24 set is amazing it’s so muted earthy and they even granulate. They look like kid Quality when you first open them, and they feel like they’re Not worth more than five bucks, but the colour payout is unreal. It was a really nice surprise.
Hi Amy love Temu ive had some great stuff from them, the Bahong watercolour pads are really cheap and gorgeous paper, love the haul and on the subject of ink ive just ordered the diamine inkvent christmas calander, I bought it last year and loved it so much had to have it this year, their inks are gorgeous
Gaaah! Amy, October has 31 days lol. You could stick an extra page in at the back. I've ordered a watercolour block for the 2nd time from Temu just last week. So happy with the quality and price.
The inks and bottles are very beautiful! x Nell.
Ugh. Yep. Of course it does. I was thinking of the undying tales project that I did last year instead of inktober. That one only goes yo the 30th! Oh well! :)
@@winterwoodsstudio lol. I know you'll work it out. What is that project/challenge? Is it on Insta?
@@tasticola Yes! instagram.com/undyingtales/ It's run by Stephanie Law, my absolute favorite watercolor artist! And it features endangered animals, which is right up my alley! This year, she's doing a prompt every other day. I think that makes it more do-able in my opinion, but I know some people want daily prompts.
@@winterwoodsstudio oh thank you! She is amazing! I really appreciate this x
I've got several absolutely lovely fountain pen type pens that have a brush nib on the end rather than the fountain pen nib off Temu, for only a couple pounds each
Oh I HAVE to get those! Thanks for the tip! And for watching!
@@winterwoodsstudio they're SO good! Really weighty and great quality, come with the piston tubes for ink and work like a charm!
Great haul! I don’t have a lot of experience with ink. What types of inks are suitable for pens? As for the fine liners, did they dry a true black? Some of the less expensive brands dry a dark grey. I’d also like to know your thoughts on using the glass dip pens. I found the one I was using to be scratchy on the surface of the paper, and I wasn’t a fan. I’m not sure if that’s a regular characteristic.
I used your coupon code! Thank you! I love Temu and have gotten a lot of really nice art supplies…and I also use more expensive supplies too…I”m enjoying your channel..and later for the people who are just unkind and offer unsolicited opinions…your channel is great!
I'm so glad! I hope you get something absolutely awesome! And thank you for the encouragement and support as well! I kind of needed it today! I knew starting a channel here would expose me to unkind comments and whatnot, but I didn't really understand the extent of it. I do now, and it can be really hard to get through at times. So thank you for taking the time to leave a kind comment! It really meant something to me today!
@@winterwoodsstudio you are very welcome…and I got a ton of stuff for practically free and a was over the moon!
A big tip to open lids of various sizes is to use a silicon baking sheet. Those flexible ones. You can double the thickness by folding it so it also works beautifully with very small lids like caps on tubes. Haven’t needed it in this way but I reckon it would also be a game changer to open up the rusted or “glued” tight paint tubes by stuck dried paint. That silicone sheet would give enough traction which would allow you to only use force on the widest part on that paint tube, you know, that round “neck” or what do you call that? Also a bonus, 1 sheet can be cut up in several pieces, several sizes or whatever. I have 1 of my local cheap store, folded up in a container (just so it doesn’t have all that static dirt and my cats and my hairs on it lol).
Another tip is to rub a very, very tiny amount of coconut oil on the OUTSIDE of the “neck” of your containers that have a screw-lid with a q-tip or something like that but make sure it can’t get on top or inside the contents of said container so really, such a small amount on the q-tip that you kinda wonder whether it would be enough or not. Would be a shame if it contaminates your content in said container. My explanation is not really making it easy to understand, I feel so I suggest asking her about it in one of her videos, I will look up the right name. But this is an excellent trick to ensure the lids don’t get “glued” on their by the dried paint or whatever else this might apply to. Might or might not be beneficial for everyone but certainly very beneficial for all the people with arthritis or other problems might have difficulty opening. one I got from your colleague youtuber ‘Linda Marcille, Beginner’s mind - Art mind’ (looked her up to have the right name -it is a mouthful lol- and will leave a link here, if links are not allowed, let me know and I will correct this message).
youtube.com/@BeginnersMind-ArtMind?si=py3CK-Hk3DGOo1me
Ooooh! Those are some GREAT tips! I always struggle with that! I'm definitely going to try them and thanks for the video recommendation!
You can also use the rubber straps that are used at the Doctor's office for blood tests, they are excellent for opening jars of all sizes; handy to keep in your purse or car, can be used as a tourniquet in an emergency!!!! Really handy to have around
@@jillp3761 that’s a good one! Although many in my neighborhood have the woven fabric elastic straps with clip, the rubber one aren’t as easy to come by. But any rubber tube from a department store will do I guess
SO many goodies and I did watch Lindsay's video on her TEMU Haul and she was very industrious in looking into TEMU and that it is just a clearing house or middleman and they get most of their money through ad revenue! so this is one reason why things are so cheap the manufacturers want to develop brand loyalty and this is one way they are trying to do this! Weird but somewhat good for us consumers!
Thank You for sharing your haul. I love everything and you can't eat those prices.
I love my Dede de praise watercolors from Temu. I also like several of their 100% cotton paper. -Kristin
Ooh I didn't know they carry auch diverse ink related products! And I loved tour illustration at the end, red truly goes so well with black ink 🥰
I kind of liked my little hummingbird too! The ink products were great! I was so excited when I realized they carried all of them! Thank you for watching!
You are so happy=3 You charge me with positive energy! Thank you, I had a great time watching your haul=)
You are so welcome! I am glad my video gave you happiness! That's the best compliment I can hope to hear! Thank you for watching!
Curious about what kind of inktober videos your planning on making! I’m really excited about this years, I’m not sure what prompt I’m going to follow, I might just do something silly and quick since I don’t know if I’ll have the time to do something intense
okay, after getting all my ink stuff together, I'm thinking of doing something horrible! I'm thinking of making my own list, calling it Paint-ober, and doing gouache, acrylics, and soft pastels (Because I consider them painting!). I really really want to do it.... How awful would that be? :)
@@winterwoodsstudio Do what inspires you!
Just wanted to know how do you stour your fine liners I bought some very good ones and they have run out,in a short time. I’ve not had them that long.
Always always store them flat of their sides, or at a slight incline with the tips pointing down. If the nib dried up, they are done for. Also, and I'm sure you know this, but in case anyone else who is reading doesn't, make sure the cap is on tight when you aren't suing them.
@@winterwoodsstudio thanks for that advice Amy,I will remedy that straight away.
I love art hauls! So much fun stuff. Enjoy it all! 😊 I may have to go do some shopping.
I am already! I filmed this two weeks ago and I've been playing and planning for inktober every spare moment i got! Hope you like the video! Thanks for taking the time to watch, Susan!
Couldn't use the Temu code. Does it only work on your items that you received??
I've heard that it doesn't work in a few countries. If you're in the US though it should work!
I have to stop buying art supplies lol.... this is torture lol...my latest art buy was gold leaf and stuff to do gilding ( i am making some illuminated letter inspired by medieval stuff...and also book binding. Have Fun and enjoy your gooddies :)
Ooh that sounds like so much fun! I've been eyeing the gold oil paint from gamblin for awhile! And honestly, sometimes we need yo go on a "no-buy' for art supplies. Sometimes it's good to use up what we have. But also new supplies xan be inspiring as well. So it's a balance. I did a no buy on arg supplies from may 28th to August 1st this year. And it was good but also, sometimes I found myself a little less excited to create. Thanks for watching!
@@winterwoodsstudio usually i try to stick to watercolors...but i like to venture out and try new things ( but not to much) because i still have to master watercolor which will take me a life time lol. But the gilding thing cought my eye ( i bought gold leaf and will try that soon). Have a great week!
Code isn't working here in Australia unfortunately
I love ur excitement on art supplies just like i do. Some call me acting like a child. But i love arts so what m i suppose to do. Is there any age for it. Yes as u said every new order is like christmas gifts. You look beautuful.❤
Aww thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Thanks for a great video; it’s used your coupon code and made an order from TEMU. Thank you!
Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you again very much, - Sartsu from finland
Great video. Thank you for sharing all of your experiece, knowledge and passion. Your camera is fine unfortunately some people focus on the wrong thing. Keep being you. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the encouragement! It seems like I'm suddenly getting a lot of comments that aren't so nice this month. I'm trying not to let them bother me but I'm not used to them yet. Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment!
@@winterwoodsstudio do not worry, there are a lot of "Keyboard's Lions" out there 😉 btw, if you are receiving a lot of "not so nice" comments, this means that your channel is growing in popularity, and poor creatives are always scared from growing channels that can potentially stole viewers from them (stupid people has stupid ideas....)... please continue to do what you are doing, you do it very well 😍
@@mokiyuitza8003 That is a very helpful way to look at it! Thank you for that! And thank you so much for the encouragement! I appreciate it!
I love your hummingbird
i always though spoopy was spooky and poop haha
I adore temu
I absolutely love my glass pen ❤️❤️❤️
I have bought from Temu on several occasions but I must say, MANY times I have had some sort of issue. Like, for example, I ordered that exact set of dip pen.... and they send the only 3 nibs in a little plastic box, and that was it. Not even the (what do u call the other part? English is not my first language.... anyway, that thing where u put the nib)... they didnt send that. And those 3 nibs were HORRIBLE. They were so unbelievably sharp, I dragged one over a paper and it ripped it away!!!
They did refund my money, but Im still very frustrated, cause now I don't even dare to buy it again.
Also I bought those waterbrushes, and they send me a different set. They send 3 tiny waterbrushes, which was a different set, I saw but didnt order because of how small the water reservoir was!
I'm so sorry to hear that! I've ordered I think five times now? Under a different name and different email address, so it would be hard to connect it to me, and I think out of all the things I ordered, One of my items (a touch lamp) stopped working a few days after I got it, and they gave me a refund right away. But I know how it is to feel wary about ordering from somewhere. every time I place an order for a paint brush or tube of paint form amazon now, I freak out a little!
I wanted to make a new post so you would see it. I don't know if you remember me but in the comment section down below I thought The Frugal Crafter blocked me and you said you had subscribers thinking the same thing and guess what I found out! If you type a long post, RUclips often times can't post it. I think because it took too long and becomes invalid and gives you a weird message making you think you can't or aren't allowed to post. So if someone says they are blocked, that is why!
What I've learned to do is copy my long post I type, refresh the page, paste it and then comment and it works every time!
Hope that helps give you something to tell your subscribers so they know how to post long comments!
Lindsey didn't block me! I'm so happy!
Oh! So that's what happened! Good to know! Now I can pass it on to my viewers if they ask! Thank you!
Are you going to show us what you are doing for Inktober?
Love your channel! Hey just a request-when showing things close up, maybe try not holding it so close to camera. We get the refocus backlash. If you just held them up closer to your body the auto focus would still work. I get so dissy sick from all the movement. Please take this with lots of love, your doing such an incredible job with this channel and I don’t have anything else that I could possibly be critical of. ❤️🦋🦋🦋🦋
❤your channel!!
Thank you! I am so glad you enjoy it!
Great video Amy. tfs.
Thank you Dianne! I appreciate it!
Happy Saturday. Very fun video. Thankyou for sharing the other links for Jake Parker Inktober and Drawtober. Inktober is always so exciting to see so many people sketching/drawing in October every year it grows and grows. Love your Temu picks and they even have some of the alcohol marker refill sets. I love alcohol markers so much. Thankyou for sharing another fun Saturday video and see you on patreon and on Thursdays youtube. And I'm so looking forward to your Ferris Wheel Ink future videos. They keep being out of my wishlist colors but I keep watching out for them. Have a great weekend.
Hi Christie Ann! I'm so glad you liked the video! Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment! I have my next box of ferris qheel press inks waiting here to open but I can't show them until September 25th and I'm worried if I open them I might be tempted... but I keep walking past the box! :) I will see you on patreon as well I hope!
Oh and btw.... u made me laugh so hard, when you showed the 30 page sketchbook for Inktober, and said something like: 30 pages cause that's how many days are in Inktober/October... And I was like: GUUURL.. October, has 31 days! Remember? Halloween October 31. 😅😅😅😅 I'm laughing, but Im not making fun of you! ❤😊😂
Yep, I screwed up. The challenge I did last year, the undying tales project, only had 30 days and for some reason I was thinking inktober only did 30 days too! Oh well! :)
@@winterwoodsstudio no biggie! But it was too funny not to mention it! 😁
I love getting things from TEMU as well particularly because some of us can’t always afford to get the expensive art supplies that other people use, and it’s nice that they have things that I myself and others can afford, and a not bad quality either. However do you know that they’re stealing other small businesses and artist designs? This is something I’m not ok with. And it’s not a theory or conspiracy. I’ve seen the post myself and even bought one just to see if it was a joke and it’s not. There are also artists out there that are trying to fight this as well. And while TEMU is Chinese based I’ve actually heard that the headquarters comes out of Brooklyn or somewhere in the United States?
Recently they stole Kristy Rice‘s new paint brushes And are selling counterfeits. She even did a HAUL previous to this for them and had a good report. She then contacted them about what was happening to her over the counterfeit posts and selling of her exclusive designs and instead of help she hit an absolute brick wall.
Other stamp makers, stencil makers have had this happened to them as well. They’re also selling counterfeit Prismacolor pencils & NEOCOLOR II pastels by Caran D’Ache. I just don’t want them taking anything from you. It’s one thing to do this to a big company that can afford the fall in sales because they have a lot of money behind them. But it’s entirely different for a small business to go through this. It completely destroy their business as I’m sure you’re well aware. That doesn’t mean that I won’t still shop there for things that are good quality and a lot cheaper than what they re-sold for in other stores. I just don’t agree with what they’re doing to small Art business owners. Please protect yourself..
So I already talked about this in the comments again, but I'm going to go over it again because I think it's important. Temu isn't the problem. Temu is a large online marketplace and has individual sellers on there that are not a part of the Temu company. The things that are being sold that are knock offs are being sold by individual sellers. As a jeweler for over a decade, I had people steal my actual photos of my handmade designs and set up shop with my actual photos, selling knock offs. It happened to me 8 times. Twice on Etsy, three times on Alli express, twice on ebay, and once on amazon. It is up to the artist to file a cease-and-desist letter with both the individual company and the actual seller. Then the store gets shut down and the items removed. If not, you sue them. There is no easy fix to this on these big online marketplaces. The only answer is for the artist to be vigilante and watch for their items being ripped off. In the meantime, it is of course everybody's own personal choice on whether or not they want to shop at these places. When I tell people what happened to me, almost all of them refuse to boycott Amazon, Etsy, and Ebay, Which kind of makes me mad. If you're going to boycott one of them, then you really need to boycott them all, otherwise you are a hypocrite. Not you personally I mean. I'm thinking about a certain guy I know that I had this conversation with. It still makes me steamed up! I don't know why everybody is so okay with turning a blind eye to amazon or etsy but all angry about it happening on temu! I feel like it's not convenient for them to acknowledge this happens at some of the companies they love to shop at!
Temp is hella shady. Pass.
It's up to you of course to shop there or not. Everyone is entitled to their own personal opinion! Hope you're having a nice weekend!
Shit, I love it. I’ve scored on Art supplies here.
Please stop shoving small items up to the camera. It is slow to focus and you are giving your viewers a big flash of white light right in the eyes. Maybe focus on a more professional camera and lighting set
Up
I'm doing the best I can. I cannot afford a more professional light set up right now. Maybe someday. I do try to turn the lights off when it when it's too bright.
Wow, how rude. Maybe you should focus on how to be a kinder person.
@@diannelevy9179 I was just about to say the exact same thing. How about if it bothers you so much you could buy her the very expensive camera setup that you think is better? Honestly, some people just have no idea I mean where the hell did adequacy go or saying something nice or if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
I love it when you shove small items into the camera then I can see what it looks like. Geez some people are just rude. Keep up the great work Amy.
@@sherhardgrave3664 Ha ha! Thanks Sher! :)